and we had big, big push back from the hiphop community about not doing biggie's case. and nobody would cooperate with police. i say one thing. you can remain anonymous. if it was your brother and somebody shot him cold-bloodedly, wouldn't you want to do the right thing? >> that's the thing. i mean, there were people -- i mean, in tupac shakur's case there were people sitting right next to him. and biggie smalls' case there were people who witnessed this. and these are people who claimed to be his friends. they were people who made money off him. made money from him. and yet refused to say anything. because they're afraid -- maybe they're afraid for their own life. i don't even give them that much credit. they're just afraid of being seen as a snitch which is just absurd. >> it takes a lot of courage to do the right thing. it takes a lot of guts to say, i know who did that. this is the person. this is what happened. i've been on the streets. most of the people in those areas where these gangsters operate, they're terrified. they're good people. they're trapped there by